Asie 21

Europe after Enlargement
Economic challenges for EU and India
Published by Academic Foundation, New Delhi 2006
http://www.academicfoundation.com/
Hard Bound Book : Pages : 176
2006 Edition : ISBN - 81-7188-509-8
Price : Rs. 495.00; US $ 39.95



Europe is changing and reinventing itself. The enlargement of the European Union to 25 members in May 2004, and even more in the future, will not change so much the global weight of Europe in the world economy as its economic geography. The entry of the Central and Eastern European countries marks in particular the culmination of an intense process of economic integration which widens the production cost matrix within which European firms are operating, while also expanding the EU market. This constitutes a formidable new order not only for all the European companies, but also for those that wish to establish themselves in Europe or those that have to face competition from firms operating within a Greater Europe. This is in particular the case of India for which Europe remains her largest trading partner and a major technology supplier. Hence a special chapter on this case study.


About the Author
Jean-Joseph Boillot is Professor of Social Sciences, and holds a Ph.D. in Development Economics. His dissertation was on India's economic development since Independence. From 1990, he has been Economic Advisor with the French Ministry of Finance on the main challenging regions of the world: Eastern Europe, Russia and CIS, East Asia and again Eastern Europe for the last EU enlargement negotiations. In 2003, he joined the French Treasury as Financial Advisor for India and South Asia, based in New Delhi. He is author of more than 20 books and of many articles on various fields of economics, particularly International and Development Econo-mics, and on India and China. He is member of the Editorial Committee of the Monthly Alternatives Economiques, the EuroIndia Center and Confronta-tion Europe. He is married and has two daughters.